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  2. Cough - Wikipedia

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    A cough is a sudden expulsion of air through the large breathing passages which can help clear them of fluids, irritants, foreign particles and microbes.As a protective reflex, coughing can be repetitive with the cough reflex following three phases: an inhalation, a forced exhalation against a closed glottis, and a violent release of air from the lungs following opening of the glottis, usually ...

  3. Breathing - Wikipedia

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    Breathing (spiration [1] or ventilation) is the rhythmical process of moving air into ... It is also used for reflexes such as yawning, coughing and sneezing.

  4. Airway clearance therapy - Wikipedia

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    A deep breath is taken to fill the lungs about 75 per cent, and held for two or three seconds. Breathing out is forceful and slow which helps to move the mucus from the smaller to the larger airways. A normal urge to cough at this point is repressed, and the breathing pattern is repeated a few times. A strong cough then follows to expel the ...

  5. Someone who has worsening cough, persistent high fevers and other concerning symptoms like chest pain, abdominal pain and trouble catching their breath needs to seek medical care to treat these ...

  6. Respiratory system - Wikipedia

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    The automatic rhythmical breathing in and out, can be interrupted by coughing, sneezing (forms of very forceful exhalation), by the expression of a wide range of emotions (laughing, sighing, crying out in pain, exasperated intakes of breath) and by such voluntary acts as speech, singing, whistling and the playing of wind instruments.

  7. Cough reflex - Wikipedia

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    The cough reflex occurs when stimulation of cough receptors in the respiratory tract by dust or other foreign particles produces a cough, which causes rapidly moving air which usually remove the foreign material before it reaches the lungs.